Archives for
July 2007

Renkoo, the casual event planning site, has created a Facebook application that takes one of the more fun aspects of getting together with friends and makes it a great way to connect with your network in Facebook. The Booze Mail app lets you send dri...

Ed note:this was embargoed until 10am CST, but unfortunately others have already jumped the gun. Note that the free pro accounts won't be available until then. -- Feedburner will make a couple of announcements today as a direct result of its acquisit...

Pownce isn't the only site offering to share snippets of text with friends. Miniblogging sites let you write extremely short entries via the web and cellphones, and some let you share media too. We tested 9 of them: Jaiku, Twitter, Tumblr, Moodmill, ...

Google has just acquired yet another company, telephony service GrandCentral, leading me to the conclusion that they're on an acquisition spree. The hastily-made graph above is an attempt to represent that - although it's extremely hard to get good d...

CoReap is a social bookmarking service that lets you manage your bookmarks and your network directly from your browser sidebar. This downloadable application lets you search for websites, add them to your bookmarks, filter by tag words, and invite an...

The guys over at Meebo were anxious to see how the chat tool worked on the iPhone and were sad to see some rather large roadblocks in the way of launching the Meebo service on the mobile device. So for those of you that have noticed a few bugs with t...

Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. It really is the end of an era. Carlos Slim, owner of a Mexican wireless telecommunications company America Movil, has been cited as the man that's taken Bill Gates top spot. America Movil has see...

Flock, the social web browser that has somehow failed to live up to its initial hype, has released a preview of its latest release. The version 0.9 has updated several aspects of the 0.7 version, and added a few new features as it makes its way to be...

While the world is buzzing about Google’s acquisition of GrandCentral, there are a variety of other startups creating web-based services for managing different aspects of your telephone experience, and in some cases dramatically lowering the cost of ...

Netvibes, the personal start page provider, has lost one of its CEOs. Pierre Chappaz is leaving Netvibes to focus his attention on Wikio, the personalized blog and news search service. Based on Chappaz' parting remarks, the split didn't go so well, a...

eBay's International classifieds site Kijiji has just been launched in the United States. Founded and launched in 2005, Kijiji was not available in the US until now. The classifieds site was spread across several countries in Europe and Asia, and was...

Ikordo is a meeting planning service that does all the heavy lifting for you. Enter in the contact information of people you'd like to invite to your meeting, indicate which attendees are required to come, set the schedule parameters, and let ikordo ...

Change.org, the network for those looking to be active in the community for making effective changes, has launched its Facebook application. The application operates in a very similar manner to the change.org website. View group projects that have be...

Technorati, the blog and media search tool, is losing two team members: Vice President of Engineering Adam Hertz and Chief Technologist Tantek Celik. While both are leaving their current roles at Technorati, both will remain rather involved with the ...

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